It took two days to finalize the negotiations. While the whole world knew Uber wanted Khosrowshahi as its next chief, he still hadn’t agreed to take the job; he could extract steep concessions from the company as conditions for his acceptance. He wound things down at Expedia, enhanced his new contract, and prepared to meet his new company. Khosrowshahi negotiated himself quite a package as a result; if he was able to take Uber public by the end of 2019—roughly two years from his hiring—at a valuation of $120 billion, Khosrowshahi would net a personal payday of more than $100 million.
